Archived; click post to view.Excerpt: If you can’t see the video above then read the transcript below. Hello and welcome to Learn 4 Life News on TouchCast. I’m starting a new season of films today for busy teachers. Each week I will look at different aspects of the Edtech and mainstream news, blogs and other social activity online; beginning with a quick look at how various educational bloggers are very skeptical about the use of Edtech in schools. A lot of practising teachers don’t have time for technology in their classrooms – only one thing has to go wrong, and in this increasingly time-efficient world, that’s one time…

Archived; click post to view.Excerpt: Learn 4 Life Programme 1 is now on YouTube. Each fortnight we will livestream a show for interested teachers for 2 hours at primetime on a Saturday night at 9 pm GMT. For the following 2 weeks we will make it available to a limited number of viewers on a growing playlist at http://tv.L4L.co.uk. Then in the months that follow, we’ll have a rolling programme of pushing out the legacy shows to wider and wider audiences on the web – on Roku – on Apple TV – on Archive.org and as many web/ second screen TV and audio podcast outlets that we can find…

I have lived the past 30 years of my life without a TV. I rarely watch mainstream TV in “real time” unless at a friend’s or relative’s house by default. I gave it up as a habit I could do without, one week in 1979, when I realised I could read through the whole transcript of John Pilger’s ‘Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia’ in a fifth of the time I took to view it on TV. It is still an incredibly powerful piece of reporting: Year Zero: The Silent Death of…